Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 9
The Caterpillar answers in very short words: "I don't see", "It isn't", "Not a bit", "Why?"
Who acts: Caterpillar, size · What happens: answer, not see, not be · To what, where: short words, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caterpillar, size), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caterpillar | det |
| 2 | Caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 short | advmod |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 answers | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answers | parataxis |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bit | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bit | cop |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 bit | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bit | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bit | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bit | punct |
| 23 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 bit | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | parataxis |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bit | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Why | punct |
| 29 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 answers | parataxis |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 Why | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | the Caterpillar | short words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | the Caterpillar = caterpillar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | size | a bit | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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